A few bad apples not sufficient explanation
5/8/2004
It has become obvious to all but the most
ardent boot lickers that the pentagon's explanation of the torture going on in Iraqi
prisons being the work of just a few bad apples is a pure fabrication. Bush and gang show
mocked surprise when it is obvious that these low level soldiers being scapgoated were
following orders from higher ups. Seymour Hersh broke the story on April 30, 2004 in the
New Yorker magazine that a 53 page pentagon report completed in February 2004 concluded
that torture has been widespread in the wake of the Iraq invasion. Note that he uses the
word torture much to his credit rather than the water-downed "abuse" most other
journalists are sticking to.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact
Here is the complete text of the pentagon report:
http://www.counterpunch.org/taguba05052004.html
Although it is not been widely reported the story has broke that the International Red
Cross told top ranking US military officials about the torture shortly after the invasion
but the pentagon ignored them.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-red-cross-prisoner-abuse,0,7901556.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
If we believe the official story US reservists were taking their orders from the CIA and
in some cases private civilian interrogators? This makes no sense whatsoever. Here is one
person's explanation:
http://www.infowars.com/print/iraq/abuse_ordered.htm
Even the British are admitting that torture is
routinely taught to their special forces. But we must believe that the US would never do
that. It is obvious that America is being demonized internationally prior to our eventual
breakup and integration into the Free Trade Area of the Americas. This is another dark
chapter in the history of our constitutional republic. I am appalled. Aren't you? Of
course the neo-con national hosts are saying that it's no big deal. Limbaugh himself has
said that the soldiers were just blowing off steam. Nice try sycophant but we aren't
buying that.
Here is a collection of articles detailing some of the torture news:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/torture_pow.html
Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others were bad when they tortured.
Being American does not make it right.
Speak out now or be seen as tacitly consenting.
And please spread the word.
yours truly,
Marcus Guy